Publisher's Synopsis
On the banks of a sprawling river, in a Brazilian backwater, lies Sao Tiago - a town for people with nowhere else to run...and it's where Sam, a former priest has ended up. Scarred by what he saw, after leaving England to help people, he cares for nothing except drinking and fishing on the great river. But when, one night, he finds himself fighting to save a man's life, it's just the start of a battle with Sao Tiago's dark heart. Sam, entangled in the affections of an ex-prostitute and a predatory landowner's wife, finds that life is cheap; love can be deadly. Now he must face his past in order to forge the chance of a future and survive in a town without a soul.
